GIS Training: Erongo Agriculture Extension Staff

Extension staff from Omaruru Agriculture office (MAWF) started an in service GIS training facilitated by Mr. R. Burger on Thursday 12 April 2012.

The first component of the training involved the use of a GPS (GARMIN eTrex Vista HCx) for navigation purposes and creation of way-points.

The second component will deal with the computer design of rangeland survey transects, monitoring and delimiting surveys for pests (quarantine) and any other field measurement or farm infrastructure use. 

The final component will deal with the transfer of data from the GPS software (MapSource) to Google Earth maps. 

Staff from Erongo Extension Office busy with training on the use of a GPS. In the picture fltr, Ms. P. /Uris, Mr. Nekwaya Leevi, Mr. G. Keib, Mr. J. De Klerk, Mr. R. Burger (facilitator) and Ms. H. Kapopo

 An example of a delimiting survey for quarantine pests designed on the GARMIN MapSource software with trap way-points

An example of the delimiting survey (above) with trap way-points transferred from the GARMIN MapSource software to a Google Earth map